Car Wants (maybe once, but now just anything Jim can find on the internet. šŸ™„)

I realise this isnā€™t beautiful, however it is menacing and I donā€™t think anyone would do road rage with one of these. This is how I first heard of Monteverdi:

Edited; better link with more informationā€¦

This would be fine.

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Hopefully Rowan hasnā€™t crashed it unlike his McClaren.

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McLaren

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Lovely bit of pedantry that. Well struck Sir!

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Rowanā€™s looked more like McClaren after he rear ended another car.

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Good try :smirk:

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:heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

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My good mate had the 4.5L V8 version of these for a couple of years recently! Was such a lovely thing to waft around in, sounded lovely but as you would expect, almost single digit MPG.
Did think that it needed diplomatic plates and flags on the wing thoughā€¦
He even braved road trips abroad and served as a Wedding car for his Sister!

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This is a new one on me, looks interesting and ā€˜reasonablyā€™ priced!

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Cute AF :ok_hand:

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Oooh, nice find, like thatšŸ‘

Is a firm like that going to be obliged to go electric by 2030?

Looking at the carā€™s floorpan, itā€™s perfectly possible for them to place an adequate battery pack into the area just outside the sales office :+1:

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Probably yes, as whoever is selling them the engine will have to.

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This is quite interesting - installing a turbo charged Honda Vtech engine and all new running gear. Some interesting engineering and fabrication
Should be fun when complete.

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Did you see the Allegro I posted that was built on a Corvette chassis/engine?

The perfect colour, too: British Leyland ā€œChest Infection Greenā€ :smile:

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If I did Iā€™ve forgotten.

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